Thursday, 28 August 2014

Childhood gone wrong

Dogtooth (2009)

Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos this film stars Christos Stergioglou, Aggeliki Papoulia, Mary Tsoni, Christos Passalis and Michelle Valley. Parents keep their children isolated from the world and living under a bizarre set of rules well into their adulthood.

This is one of the unusual films you will ever see managing to be both dark and bizarre in such an understated manner it always unsettles but never moves into horror territory. The plot is often left ambiguous with no explanations as to why things are happening this way but works well as a satire for controlling and over protective parents who seek to keep children locked in childhood. Visually the film is interesting with shots often unusually framed to give the impression of family photos or videos that your relatives might force you to sit through.


5/5

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